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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that their reasoning is NOT to cut down on emissions related to globalized food systems... lol

This is a direct assault on the US norms around civil military relations. It is a direct message that the military leadership either has to join a personalist regime or leave.

This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.

Leavitt on Michigan shooting: "As the president rightfully put in his Truth Social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians. And the Trump administration is fully committed to not only investigating these crimes but prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law."

Wow, I have never seen one of those before! I see now that it's special for the contraflow bike lane on the cross-street. Wondering if this is an SF special or if this is approved by CalTrans... what a unique anomaly.

In this politics issue, we wanted you to see what we saw: Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

But remember: It’s your future that they just might gamble away.

🧵 of stories so far:

BREAKING: Elon Musk's xAI has signed a deal with the federal government to allow the integration of its Grok AI with federal agencies.

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

When you lay it all out like that...

Btw, this was JD Vance just a few months ago back in February of this year🙃

NABI 60 BRT (greatest bus ever made)

This is my complete map for where SB 79 will apply in LA County for July 2026.

Let me know if you want to see an area zoomed in!

It's good to know that even if a new line has not been built yet, it's still eligible for upzoning. In theory, this would suggest that something like the Splvda Line could potentially open with dense housing already built around stations? That would be a major boost in ridership right out the gate!

“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”

Patricia J. Williams: “When AI Speaks for the Dead” Patricia J. Williams on the shape-shifting nature of generative AI and its troubling commodification of the dead—in the courtroom and beyond

AI "disrupt[s] our apprehension of epoch + dislodge[s] thought from embodiment. If evrythng is everybody’s or nobody’s, [if] all humanities are treated as jumbled masses of info w/o regard for autonomy or ⌛, [we betray] the very idea of archives as repositories of human experience + layered memory"

Week 4 of the fall semester at the University of Michigan and I've already fallen victim to sickness. Call me a speedrunner as that is the FASTEST I've gotten sick in my 3 years here.

Both of our 2 home football games so far have been #COVID superspreaders, so I'm hoping it's just frat cough!

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Another fantastically nuanced, relevant and context aware piece from @davidzipper.bsky.social on the coming proliferation of autonomous vehicles on American streets.

This is our one chance to take proactive steps to redefine the automotive's relationship with the built environment.
#urbantech

Wow, this is terrible. It's unfortunate that I don't have trouble seeing the validity of these claims.

Why federal IT fails — And how budgeting by capability can fix it - Niskanen Center Federal IT teams are smart and capable. The real challenge is how funding flows and how tightly it’s bound to the work.

Insightful piece from Solitaire Carrol of the @niskanencenter.bsky.social outlining how government agencies can successfully implement the product model with "capability-based funding" instead of the mess that occurs today

#civictech #govtech #techpolicy
www.niskanencenter.org/federal-it-b...

Supreme Court to hear arguments over Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs | CNN Politics The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, taking up a fast-moving appeal that deals with the centerpiece of the administration’s…

The Supremes have agreed to hear the Trump Administration's appeal of the ruling -- since affirmed by a federal appeals court -- that most of the Trump tariffs are unconstitutional. Likely early November.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...

This trajectory has been in place for a long time. We wrote about how technology fuels it and how law could help, but it’s all pretty scary.

www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...

Rethinking Speech Rights in the Era of Corporate Information Control | TechPolicy.Press We need to return to an essentially democratic, political conception of the constitutional right to free speech, David McNeill writes.

Since Trump's designation of social media as the "public square" I've called out that the space is far from "public," but this states my position in ways I never could, and introduces many other great ideas. This may be the best piece on free speech I've read.

www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...

Trump’s reckless assault on the federal workforce affects every aspect of our lives The Texas tragedy is at the front edge of harm facing the country as Trump dismantles the government.

"Trump and his team are effectively acting like property developers who cut down a redwood grove and said, “Sue me if you think what I did was illegal.” Whatever the eventual outcome of any litigation, the trees are gone and there is no bringing them back."

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

by Ann Lewis Ann Lewis The government could replicate some private sector practices that have provided results like digitizing more services.

Government can deliver better digital services—but only if it adopts the right operating model. Our new piece at @niskanencenter.bsky.social with @pahlkadot.bsky.social explains why moving from projects to products is the path to services that actually work. www.niskanencenter.org/the-product-...

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski — who placed a critical “yes” vote for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda bill after intense negotiations to win her support — told reporters afterward that she is not happy with the measure and hopes the House sends it back. “We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination,” Murkowksi told reporters. Asked by CNN why she decided to vote for the bill despite her concerns with it, she said: “Because we have two options here, right? Kill it and it’s gone.” Reflecting on the process, Murkowski added: “This is probably the most difficult and agonizing legislative 24-hour period that I have encountered, and I’ve been here quite a while. And you all know I’ve got a few battle scars underneath me. But I think I held my head up and made sure that the people of Alaska are not forgotten in this. But I think there is more that needs to be done and I’m not done.”

American Politics is such a joke.

"After voting for Trump’s agenda bill, Sen. Murkowski says she hopes the House sends it back"
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

#uspol #senate #bbb

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Interview w/ Mike German, who infiltrated neo-Nazis in the 90s, and is one of the FBI's sharpest critics, had a book out in Jan about the bureau downplaying the threat of far-right violence: www.brennancenter.org/policing-whi...

The American carceral state has always been designed to "destabilize" movements that fight for progress, and blissfully ignore those that promote right wing ideology. Federal surveillance, oppression and detention of minority groups is nothing new, these communities have sounded the alarm for years.